AI-powered search startup Glean doubles valuation in new funding round

AI-powered search startup Glean doubles valuation in new funding round

 Arvind Jain, CEO Glean, on SaaS Monster stage during day one of Web Summit 2022 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Harry Murphy | Sportsfile | Getty Images AI-powered search startup Glean said Tuesday it has raised $260 million in a funding round that values the tech company at $4.6 billion — more than … Read more

Stock market today: Live updates

Stock market today: Live updates

Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) floor on September 09, 2024 in New York City.  Spencer Platt | Getty Images The S&P 500 edged higher on Tuesday, along with the Nasdaq Composite, as investors scooped up tech shares following a recent dip and investors tried to regain their footing after a tough … Read more

Skype founder’s VC firm Atomico raises $1.24 billion Europe tech fund

Skype founder’s VC firm Atomico raises .24 billion Europe tech fund

Niklas Zennstrom, CEO of Atomico and co-founder of Skype. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Atomico, an early investor in top European technology firms from Stripe to Klarna, announced Monday the launch of two new funds worth $1.24 billion to back emerging and growth-stage startups in the sector. The launch of Atomico’s … Read more

OpenAI gives artists access to Sora for New York gallery exhibit

OpenAI gives artists access to Sora for New York gallery exhibit

OpenAI announced Friday a New York City art gallery collaboration that gives artists access to unreleased artificial intelligence tools. The exhibit, a series called “Strada Nuova: New Road” on view at Strada Gallery will run for three weeks and centers on a “diverse group of artists [that] is curated to consist of brilliant researchers, academics, … Read more

AI craze getting funded by tech giants, distorting traditional VCs

AI craze getting funded by tech giants, distorting traditional VCs

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky speaks with Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei during AWS re:Invent 2023, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas on Nov. 28, 2023. Noah Berger | Getty Images Almost three years into a largely dormant IPO cycle, venture capitalists are in … Read more

Google second antitrust trial advertising model

Google second antitrust trial advertising model

A pedestrian passes by the Google office in New York City on Jan. 25, 2023. Leonardo Munoz | View Press | Getty Images A month after losing a landmark antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice, Google is headed back to court to face off for a second time against federal prosecutors. In August, … Read more

Salesforce to acquire Own for $1.9 billion in cash

Salesforce to acquire Own for .9 billion in cash

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, speaks during a keynote at the Dreamforce 2023 conference in San Francisco on Sept. 12, 2023. Marlena Sloss | Bloomberg | Getty Images Salesforce announced Thursday that it would pay $1.9 billion in cash for Own Co., a startup specializing in tools for backing up data in cloud-based applications. Salesforce … Read more

AI gadgets have been a bust so far. Apple aims to change that

AI gadgets have been a bust so far. Apple aims to change that

Jaque Silva | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images In late 2022, OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT spurred an explosion of interest in the possibilities for artificial intelligence. Within months, some of the biggest tech companies in the world, including Microsoft, Meta and Google, joined the party, launching their own AI chatbots and generative AI … Read more

Cramer names Microsoft (MSFT) as No. 1 underappreciated megacap to buy

Cramer names Microsoft (MSFT) as No. 1 underappreciated megacap to buy

Microsoft’s generative artificial intelligence prospects are impressive. But the stock has more to offer investors than just the new tech. Jim Cramer said Microsoft shares could bottom Wednesday — and out of all the megacap tech stocks, this Club name is the one to buy. Microsoft closed at a record high of $467 on July … Read more

Microsoft avoids UK probe into hiring of Inflection AI employees

Microsoft avoids UK probe into hiring of Inflection AI employees

Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and chief executive officer of Inflection AI UK Ltd., speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Microsoft’s hiring of employees from Inflection AI, the artificial intelligence startup started by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, has been cleared by … Read more